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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Or maybe because they find it fun? Not everything you choose not do can't merely be dismissed as escapism in others. Hey - why do people play computer games? Must be because they're afraid of real life, and their parents didn't love them and they're not going anywhere fast...well, maybe that's true for some but in others - they game because it's fun.
And guess what - even highly motivated people - people who are "doing things with their lives" like to get drunk sometimes. It's fun - or can be.
The idea that truly psychologically healthy go-getting individuals should abstain from all pleasures (wanking? drinking? heroin?) seems a bizzarre idea, probably a remnant of Christian/Protestant ethics.
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I don't know, to be honest. Seems to me that a lot of people playing online games aren't that happy with their lot. I know that I once found it fun, but now I just play them because I can't be arsed to do anything else.
As for drinking, it's just silly to claim that everyone drinks to excess because it's fun. 1) It isn't always. 2) There are obvious cultural pressures/influences upon young people to drink.